This programme will be of interest to both recent graduates and those wishing to return to study in higher education. The programme focuses on Britain’s maritime and colonial past, providing opportunities for students to study and work with a small team of specialists who work closely with National Museums Liverpool.
Maritime and colonial history raises challenging and interesting issues concerning the history of England within the context of the British Isles, and in a wider setting of European engagement and encounter with the wider world. This programme seeks to explore these issues by focussing on selected themes spanning the early modern period through to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while providing students with an opportunity to study and reflect on related themes concerning globalization and politics. It is designed to provide postgraduate students with a rich and varied programme of study, demanding critical engagement with the subject and an understanding of diverse forms of evidence.
Postgraduate students will study a core course, issues in colonial and maritime expansion (30 credits), a research methods course (15 credits), and additional courses of 75 credits, of either 15 or 30 credits. On successful completion they will progress to the dissertation. Students who successfully complete the taught components of the programme but who do not complete a dissertation will be eligible for the PG Dip in Maritime and Colonial History. Students who successfully complete the core programme module and 30 credits worth of other taught modules from the programme will be eligible for the PG Cert in Maritime and Colonial History.
Electives Modules
- The rhetoric of empire in early modern England
- A nation of pirates: English piracy and privateering
- Ideas of Empire: culture, politics and society
- Emigration and encounter
- Transatlantic perspectives on nation, race and identity Liverpool and the Atlantic
- Liverpool, a global port city
- The theory and practice of globalization
- American foreign relations
- Britain and the World
The Department of Politics and History at Liverpool Hope has a strong teaching and research reputation. All faculty members are actively engaged in research, publishing and contributing to the development of their discipline. The department has particular research interests in maritime and colonial history; transatlantic slave trade; early modern Irish and British history; and twentieth century European ideologies, cultures and identities; international relations; European integration; and American government. Faculty in the department work collaboratively with colleagues in other departments and are actively involved in a number of the University’s research centres and groups.
Research is a central part of Liverpool Hope University’s academic life and vision. In this context the Department of Politics and History is committed to developing and supporting an active research culture though an ongoing mix of research seminars, locally organised conferences and other events, including field trips and visiting speakers.
Career Opportunities
Graduates are likely to pursue careers education and the University sector; community organisations, international organisations (UN and associated agencies), international business, diplomatic service, and the armed services.
